New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research abstracts
Traceability and IT: implications for the future international
competitiveness and structure of China’s vegetable sector
Liu Xue
College of Information and Electrical Engineering
China Agriculture University
PO Box 209
Beijing 100083, China
Gong Weiwei
College of Economics and Management
China Agriculture University
PO Box 209
Beijing 100083, China
Fu Zetian*
Xian Peng
Li Weiguang
College of Engineering
China Agriculture University
PO Box 209
Beijing 100083, China
*Author for correspondence:
fzt.2007@yahoo.com.cn
Abstract This paper identifies the key aspects of
traceability for vegetable producers, wholesalers, processors, trade
associations, government and food hygiene and safety authorities and
outlines the core elements of modern IT-based vegetable traceability
systems. The internal and external pressures for a traceability system
and the barriers to adoption in China are explored in the context of
its vegetable sector. It then highlights current developments in China
and some of the barriers to adopting and implementing IT based
traceability which would meet accepted international norms, thereby
integrating the Chinese vegetable industry with prevalent global best
practices. We conclude that the Chinese vegetable industry may lose
much of its competitive advantage in world vegetable markets if it
fails to introduce and enforce, traceability systems but that the costs
of introduction may be beyond certain sections of the industry, thereby
leading to a two-speed and two-tier vegetable sector.
Keywords information technology; traceability; vegetable
supply; China
A07108; Online publication date 8 February 2008; Received and
accepted 10 August 2007
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 2007, Vol. 50:
911–917
0028–8233/07/5005–0911 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2007
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